From the Bench · The Men's Collection
A Platinum Basic Man's Ring for Mahran
The Platinum Edition of the Basic Man's Ring, carved in wax and cast in Pt950, set with emerald, sapphires and diamonds.

Mahran, writing from Saudi Arabia, commissioned the Basic Man's Ring in its Platinum Edition: Pt950 set with an emerald, sapphires and diamonds.
Carol carved and filed the wax by hand, laid the stones into it to confirm proportion, then cast the ring in platinum, set each stone and polished it at the bench.
A CD of the design photographs travelled with the ring. When he opened the box at the FedEx counter, he wrote, the staff asked to see the photographs too.
The making, stage by stage

01The stones

02Carving the wax

03Filing the wax

04Refining the form

05Stones laid in the wax

06Casting

07Cast in platinum

08Setting

09Polishing

10Finished

11Platinum Edition